My name’s Chris Jeavans. For one month I am attempting to live my normal life with one main change – no new plastic. That means no bags, no packaging, no plastic to hang around in landfill. In this blog I’ll keep you updated to let you know how I’m getting on.[From BBC NEWS | Month …
I arrived in New Mexico at high noon yesterday and pulled over and took this picture. Northern New Mexico is very green, lots of cattle ranches, and I must say I was glad to start seeing ridges and mountains in the distance and driving over hills after the flatness that was Kansas. I stopped, briefly, …
[From xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe] Yeah. What he said. I was going to write more – actually did write more – but you know what? Either you get this or you don’t. I definitely measure more regrets of the things I didn’t do than the …
Briefly (because I need to go to bed), Christian Bale is great as Batman, but he does have a tendency to make his “Batman” voice all dark and gravelly like he’s trying to talk in a particular dark and brooding kind of font. I seem to remember is was obvious in the last film, but …
Maybe it’s the New Englander in me, but yeah, Kansas is a bit spooky with the flatness thing especially when dark, lightning-strewn clouds are rising out of the southern horizon like some giant solid wall of darkness and the light to the west & north is still quite lovely and full of sunlight. Where I …
A long day of driving – not quite as long as I’d hoped, and not nearly as far as I wanted to get, (I was hoping to make St. Louis, but ups and downs of the Appalachian mountains in a car without a tremendous amount of pickup slowed me down quite a bit. In addition, …